by Kelly M.S. Swope

Other Minds and Other Stories­­ – Bennett Sims

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Other minds are all around us, infecting us with their desires, affects, and ideas, and yet they remain fundamentally unknowable to us.

Saudade for a Breaking Heart – Kristen Lucia Renzi

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We cannot fully know saudade until our bodies experience pleasure’s phantom pangs.

She Is Haunted – Paige Clark

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She Is Haunted mixes elements of melodrama—the mother-daughter psychodrama above all—into a traumatic temporality in which the past is never-ending.

Focal Point – Jenny Qi

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FOCAL POINT, like the Greek epics it frequently references, is thus an inner odyssey through illness and loss that imparts the difficult lesson that to live is to grieve.

The Monster Out of Nowhere

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Imagining the mass strike and practically organizing it are one and the same activity.

Beyond Education – Eli Meyerhoff

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We must be mindful not to understate the submerged radical potential of the democratic educational ideal.

Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone – Astra Taylor

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Attempts to carry out democracy are thus attempts to sublimate natural human conflicts into cooperatively managed institutions that yield the broadest measure of justice for their constituents.

Democracy, Nature, Manifest Destiny

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What makes Crane’s modernist epic so instructive for the twenty-first century is how it discovers ample room in nature for humanity’s freedom struggle.